Music in Charlotte Square

A free, open-air celebration to close out the final weekend of the 2023 International Festival.

For the final weekend of the Festival, join us in the garden at Charlotte Square for a shared listening experience. Not normally open to the public, this beautiful setting is the perfect space to wander through a soundscape of classical music.

Listen to highlights recorded live during the Festival, including Beethoven’s joyful Ninth Symphony performed at the Usher Hall by the Simón Bolívar Symphony Orchestra of Venezuela and the Edinburgh Festival Chorus. Bring a picnic, pull up a deckchair and enjoy the best of the 2023 classical programme.

Programme

Music from across the 2021, 2022 and 2023 Festivals

Bach Orchestral Suite No.2
Beethoven Symphony No.9
Brahms excerpt from Piano Quartet in G minor
Chopin Nocturne Op 48 No.2
Czerny Variations on Rode’s ‘Ricordanza’
Dukas Fanfare from La Peri
Handel Suite from Theodora
Kodaly 'Dances of Galanta'
Maxwell Davies 'A Spell for Green Corn'
Mendelssohn String Quartet Op.44 No.3
Mendelssohn excerpts from Symphony No.3
Montsalvage Cantiones Negras
Mozart excerpt from Oboe Quartet
Schubert Notturno
Schubert Quartettsatz
Schubert Rondo
Stravinsky 'Three Dances' from The Soldier’s Tale
Mark-Anthony Turnage 'Awake'
Ayanna Witter-Johnson 'Blush'